Seriously p***ed off

[lloydie]

Bloody hell that's the first crank failure I've heard of .
At least it's a easy fix and the rest of the engine is ok .


Lube, no lube, it's your choice .

[Pete.L]

well, I just got off the phone with the dealer further to a teardown of the engine and the guilty party is.... the crank, which is snapped

Wow!
Sorry to hear that. Mind you, that is some pretty impressive mileage by our standards. 155,000 miles in our money. I've seen a SP with just over 90 thou on it but yours is the highest storm I've heard of.
Good luck with the rebuild

Pete.l

[mik_str]

The search is on for a new OEM crank. Plan B is a good used one.......

[mik_str]

A new crank has been ordered... thankfully they are still available from Honda (!)..... I will get this one balanced to the pistons and rods too, though I will give the matter of fitting an OEM flywheel some thought.....

[spikenipple]

Get an MT-09....I just did

[tony.mon]

Get an MT-09....I just did

You may be missing the point.
Anyone can just just go into a showroom and order a new latest whatever, there's no joy in that, and at any bike meet you'll see several more exactly the same.

[Stephan]

A new crank has been ordered... thankfully they are still available from Honda (!)..... I will get this one balanced to the pistons and rods too, though I will give the matter of fitting an OEM flywheel some thought.....

I suggest you to speak to Roger about balancing the crank (which should be balanced independently from factory), I still think this cannot improve anything, on the other side it can do some harm.

[Watty]

Get an MT-09....I just did

You may be missing the point.
Anyone can just just go into a showroom and order a new latest whatever, there's no joy in that, and at any bike meet you'll see several more exactly the same.

Each to their own but MT09= No character, Storm= Brimming with character

[VTRDark]

Sorry to hear about all this Mik, what a nightmare.

(:-})

[mik_str]

A new crank has been ordered... thankfully they are still available from Honda (!)..... I will get this one balanced to the pistons and rods too, though I will give the matter of fitting an OEM flywheel some thought.....

I suggest you to speak to Roger about balancing the crank (which should be balanced independently from factory), I still think this cannot improve anything, on the other side it can do some harm.

already done, and it will be getting balanced to the JE pistons and Carrillo rods. Will also be refitting the lightened flywheel.....

[Stephan]

A new crank has been ordered... thankfully they are still available from Honda (!)..... I will get this one balanced to the pistons and rods too, though I will give the matter of fitting an OEM flywheel some thought.....

I suggest you to speak to Roger about balancing the crank (which should be balanced independently from factory), I still think this cannot improve anything, on the other side it can do some harm.

already done, and it will be getting balanced to the JE pistons and Carrillo rods. Will also be refitting the lightened flywheel.....

yes, maybe I missed point or two ... :-) My crank should be balanced as well as you mentioned in my thread (65g lighter pistons), but nobody here do motorbike cranks, so I leave it as it is and hope that changed over/under balance ratio for counterweight will be ok.

[sirch345]

A new crank has been ordered... thankfully they are still available from Honda (!)..... I will get this one balanced to the pistons and rods too, though I will give the matter of fitting an OEM flywheel some thought.....

Good man Micky, that's sounding more like the mik_str we know

Chris.

[mik_str]

Just ordered some new conrod bolts (are just shy of $50 USD apiece!!!!!)....... gonna try to do this right (albeit expensive).......

[lloydie]

Are you sure that's each ?
As for all 4 it should be a tad under $40 CAD .
Have look on here for oem parts and if they won't ship to you send them me and I'll send them on to you .
Could save yourself a few $$$


Lube, no lube, it's your choice .

[mik_str]

I double checked; these are not OEM bits but rather Carrillo bits, hence the cost.....damn expensive any way you look at it, but I am already in for a pile of money so no sense cutting corners now (could possibly re-use the existing ones but with my current luck they'd likely fail soon after the rebuild.....)

BTW, thanks for the kind offer to help